Horace Emmert, Reinbeck area farmer, was taken by ambulance to Cedar Falls after sustaining a skull fracture while he was attempting to free a clogged picker-sheller at Kenneth Moye farm when he received a severe blow on the head.

Hattie Shield, 92, Gladbrook, died at Beverly Manor Nursing Home in Grundy Center.

James Westergaard, Sr. 66, Reinbeck, died Nov. 19 at the Veterans Hospital in Des Moines.

Harold Ellis, 65, Grundy Center, died Nov. 10 of an acute coronary.

Grace Harte, 90, died at Beverly Manor in Grundy Center.

Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Nissen are parents of a son born Nov. 9 at Schoitz Hospital

in Waterloo.

Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Woehik, Gladbrook, will observe their 50th wedding anniversary on Dec. 3 with an open house at Peace United Church of Christ in Gladbrook.

50 YEARS AGO

NOV. 1962

Ira Storey, 79, died Nov. 17.

Sylvan Ames of Hoeg & Ames, Lincoln, was elected president of the National Water Well Association.

Art Mulder, 33, Grundy Center, was injured by a farm feed grinder, receiving a fractured left shoulder and chest and head injuries.

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Sloan, Cedar Rapids are parents of a son born Nov. 13.